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During CFO Forum’s Annual Meeting, Marieke Driessen and Rogier Raas hosted a breakout session on ESG reporting and how it contributes to driving new growth.

On 26 February, the European Commission presented the proposal for an omnibus regulation aimed at simplifying and streamlining European sustainability legislation.

De Europese Commissie heeft het voorstel voor een Omnibus-regeling, dat beoogt Europese duurzaamheidswetgeving te versimpelen en stroomlijnen, op 26 februari gepresenteerd.

Recently, the Dutch bill for the implementation of BRRD II establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms, as amended by Directive in the Netherlands was submitted to Dutch Parliament.

In this blog Maciek Bednarski, Annemijn Witkam and Roderik Vrolijk explain what NFTs are and describe some of the legal challenges they will bring about.

In this blog, we briefly present the evolution of the future new European legal framework for the digital financial sector.

On 30 of May 2024 the Council of the European Union adopted the Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorism Financing Package (the AML Package). The AML Package will have consequences for market parties.

The European financial markets feature numerous financial products with characteristics such as ‘green’, ‘ESG’, ‘sustainable’, ‘climate’, ‘transition’, ‘impact’ or similar. But when is it fair to name or label financial products as such?

On 24 May 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a report on virtual IBAN (vIBANs) in which the EBA set outs characteristics and use cases of vIBANs and comments on identified risks associated with this development in the payments market.

On 17 September 2024, former president of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi published his report to the European Commission with observations on Europe’s sustainable competitiveness and recommendations for Europe’s future.

AFM sets out the findings of its review of the use of alternative performance measures in financial reporting and concludes that Dutch issuers often fall short of the required level of transparency when reporting their alternative performance measures.

Stibbe lawyers Marieke Driessen, Loes van Dijk and Ingrid van der Klooster contributed to the book 'Sustainable Finance in Europe' which was recently published.

The EU Listing Act, which includes updates to the Prospectus Regulation, Market Abuse Regulation, Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation, and to the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, has been published on 14 November 2024.

On 30 June 2024, the first set of measures of the MiCa Regulation (“Markets in Crypto-Assets”) came into effect. This article outlines the provisions of the MiCa Regulation that are already in force and their implications for the crypto-sphere.

A recent report of the AFM underlines its focus on monitoring SFDR compliance, signals tightening enforcement action against those lagging behind, and highlights a new phase of supervisory attention for clear, accurate and reliable SFDR disclosures.

In its latest market watch, the AFM places a spotlight on notifications of substantial holdings and gross short positions in response to the ongoing public discourse on the issue.